Title: Apollo Readme

apollo

Convert anything from Lua to C++ and back!

This library is in a quite usable alpha state. It can be built as static library or DLL/.so and works with Lua 5.2 to 5.3. Documentation is here:

Features

Functions are first-class objects: You can push a function to Lua and retrieve it back. When you pushed it as a function pointer, you can retrieve it back as function pointer, std::function and boost::function are also fully supported (they can even hold functions written in Lua!)
If you don't need to retrieve your functions back from Lua, apollo offers function wrappers that have zero overhead compared to a hand-written wrapper (to_raw_function<F, FVal>()).
Supports converting classes with multiple bases to any unambiguous one (virtual inheritance is not supported).
Access to primitives (push, from_stack<T>, is_convertible<T>) allows you to build the abstractions you need or hand-write a custom wrapper if the included high-level abstractions don't fit your needs.
Useful Lua programming utilities like registry_reference, stack_balance or exceptions_to_lua_errors and the complementary throwing pcall.

Also, the implementation uses variadic templates instead of preprocessor metaprogramming for faster builds and better auto-completion support.

A up-to-date, reasonably C++11-compliant compiler and standard library. Tested with gcc 4.8, Clang 3.4 with libstdc++-4.8 (see Travis CI) and MSVC 12 (2013).
Lua in version 5.1, 5.2 or 5.3.
Boost 1.56 Presently used modules are Assert, Config, Core, Exception and TypeIndex. For the tests, Preprocessor and Test are used additionally.
A reasonably recent CMake for building.